The Weekly Newspaper of Torrance
Herald Publications - Torrance, El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Hawthorne, Lawndale, & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 7, No. 38 - September 21, 2017
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Little Company of Mary Hosts
Reception for Priscilla Hunt
Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Torrance recently hosted a recent reception to thank Priscilla Hunt, who with her late husband Donald G. Hunt, donated $20 million to support the
hospital’s Cardiovascular Center of Excellence Campaign to advance cardiovascular care. More than 120 people, including Hunt family members, attended the cocktail reception at the DoubleTree Torrance.
The photo shows Priscilla Hunt with Rod Hochman, President and CEO of Providence Health & Services. Photo Provided by Providence. •
See City Council, page 6
School District Enters Affiliate Partnership
Agreement with USC School of Engineering
By Cristian Vasquez
Members of the Torrance School Board
this week approved for the Torrance Unified
School District to enter an Affiliate
Partnership (Tier 3) Agreement with the
USC Viterbi STEM Education Outreach
Program (STEM-EOP) in order to support
the STEM clubs at Torrance High School
and Madrona Middle School.
The agreement, in effect during the
2017-2018 school year, will allow STEMEOP
to offer partner schools’ students
and teachers “opportunities for authentic
experiences in science, technology, engineering
and mathematics (STEM) building
on the long-running successes of the USC
MESA (Mathematics Engineering Science
Achievement) Program and Mission
Science programs,” according to the staff
report. Created to meet the needs of
schools interested in collaborating with
the USC Viterbi School of Engineering,
the Viterbi STEM Schools Partnership
program was born. The program provides
partner schools with access to USC facilities,
USC students, faculty, STEM-EOP
resources and the staff to the larger network
of Los Angeles area schools.
USC’s Viterbi STEM Educational Outreach
Programs is operated through the
university’s Viterbi School of Engineering
and is committed to increasing the
number of “educationally disadvantaged
and underrepresented” K-12 students who
register to, and graduate from, four-year
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Politically Speaking............5
Real Estate...........................8
Sports....................................3
TerriAnn in Torrance..........4
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City Enters One-Year Agreement to Serve as
Deployment Site for 2018 Homeless Count
By Cristian Vasquez
In a unanimous vote, the Torrance City
Council on Tuesday approved a one-year
agreement with the Los Angeles Homeless
Service Authority (LAHSA) to serve as a
deployment site during the 2018 Homeless
Count, and to serve refreshments. Also approved
was an $855 expenditure.
LAHSA is a joint powers authority that
was developed by the City and County of
Los Angeles in 1993 to address the homelessness
issue in the greater Los Angeles area.
LAHSA acts as the lead agency of the Los
Angeles Continuum Care (LA CoC), which
relies on 85 cities and unincorporated areas in
LA County. The City of Torrance falls under
Service Planning Area 8 of the LA CoC.
“At the August 24, 2017 meeting of the
[Social Services] Commission, we received a
presentation from Megan Emme, of the Los
Angeles Homeless Services Authority Regional
Coordinator for Service Provider Area 8, on
the purpose of the homeless count and the
responsibility of being a partner in the opt-in
program,” said Liaison to the Social Services
Commission Domenica Megerdichian. “Following,
the Commission voted 6-0 [absent
Commissioner Leyes] to approve staff’s recommendation
that the City be a deployment
site for the 2018 Homeless Count.”
On November 22, 2016, the Social Services
Commission and City Council hosted a joint
meeting that resulted in the Council accepting
and filing the commission’s work plan that
recommended the commission take action
and count “all four commission populations”
and collaborate with service organizations
and agencies to conduct the count.
The Homeless Count is a yearly process
in which homeless people within the city’s
boundaries are counted. Homeless is defined as
See School Board, page 3